Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pistols and Stamens: Gender and Genre in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms -- Walking Small: W. C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and the Emasculation of the American Comic Tradition -- Cock and Bull Story: Howard Hawks's Red River, Professionalism, and the Western -- All Shook Up: The Classic Hollywood Musical, Male Desire, and the "Problem" of Rock 'n' Roll -- Growing Up Absurd: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent -- "Cussers Last Stan'": Black Masculinity in The Cool World -- Of Men and Monoliths: Science Fiction, Gender, and 2001: A Space Odyssey -- Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film -- Rich and Strange: Economic Performance Anxiety and the Yuppie Horror Film -- Man's Favorite Sport? The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index.